more requests than available permits. Native villagers would serve as Thus sport hunting would provide the state with additional funds to tra more muskoxen and the natives with much needed revenue. Permit hunting of muskoxen was proposed earlier but opposition hunting groups prompted Alaska's governor Walter Hickel to prohibit it. that time the animal's winter range has deteriorated considerably. Administration Appointment Schedule Puzzling: The Administration is pushing to make high positions in the F Wildlife Service political appointments and simultaneously is taking co positions in the Soil Conservation Service out of the political realm a them under the career (non-political) system, the Wildlife Management I